GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
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| One of the beauties about this series is being able to mix in over-the top situations/comedy with sprinkled realism around. I think the balance between over-the top moments and realism really benefits the drama. It was really hard for me to tell if Onizuka and Urumi will actually get themselves killed when they jumped off that bridge. Anyways, being born from a tube explains her 200 IQ and her depression. She just wanted a regular mom meaning her mom was terrible. Well, at such a young age and being a genius, I can buy it. Man, teachers in Japan are really prideful of their work. I'm not sure why they should feel beaten up when they're teaching a freaking genius child. Seriously, should you feel ashamed on somebody being naturally smarter than you? Praise their intellect and move on because they're clearly going to destroy in the learning realm. Must be the authority/power aspect, losing the feeling of authority over a child would make feel somebody inferior I suppose. Honestly, everything is out of the teacher's hands at that point and I can't fault them for it. Besides, these teachers are teaching "general" classes so I find it hard to blame them for doing a bad job since the aim is for everybody to learn. This is a cultural thing I suppose, so I'm okay with it. |
| Extreme way to get her onto his side but it seems to have worked lel |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| Onizuka really does take things to the extreme. At least now she won't be so much of a bitch. RIP Cresta yet again LOL |
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| "I'll teach her a lesson on how to broaden your asshole" W-Wait what? What a dangerous stunt he did there I'm more questioning why he got bike gang member when he's already quit from gang activities RIP 5th Cresta? I lost count of the Cresta |
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| oh god, this is the lamest"character with family issues" arc I ever read/watch. good thing it´s done. |
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So what's up with this guy |
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| I guess kanzaki recovered...... and maybe a new threat will appear...poor cresta lol |
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| Eh, a dull episode |
| A f*cking alpha, he is... You really can't expect a teacher like him in real life. Because that will be super troublesome. |
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| So is she the daughter of Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe? And poor Cresta, this is what the 4th time? |
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| That's so shallow and stupid!!!!!! Kanzaki is stupid! Duhhhhhh! Worst arc ever!!!! Finally it end. Cresta joke is not funny anymore |
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
| Kanzaki might be extremely smart and have IQ over 200, but in terms of emotional development she is no more than a regular kid. After this episode I can say her emotionalness is even below the level of a regular kid of her age. About Onizuka, woah! He's such a boss. ;D To perform that kind of trick on the bridge... only somebody with balls of steel could've done it, haha. I like the mutual respect and trust showed between Onizuka and his friends on bikes. Also, RIP Cresta number 4, although while I smiled a little bit, it is not as funny as it was before anymore. Just as @YamEnele mentioned earlier. I guess we got too much of the same jokes about Onizuka being the main reason of another Cresta getting demolished. |
AdnashApr 15, 2020 6:16 PM
| Another amazing episode, that was a great motorbike riding scene. I knew Onizuka would go this far in order to teach Kanzaki a lesson of its own. Btw vice principal probably has best insurance plan in whole Japan |
| Wow that was a hardcore punishment, it was great |
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| Fantastic episode, this was probably my favorite 'arc' so far. Urumi really grew on me as a character, probably among my favorites so far, hope we see more of her. Onizuka is just too awesome. What a madlad. |
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| R.I.P vice principle's Cresta. HAHAHAHA 4th time!!! |
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| Wait, so that's how the Kanzaki problem is resolved? What is her "secret" that the teacher revealed anyway? We still don't know why she's such a nutjob. |
| The bombing was a serious terrorist activity. But VC made excuses to the police cause it might tank their school reputation? This seems to be a common practice in Japanese animation. It must be a serious issue in IRL Japan to be parodied in anime. Art imitates life and all that jazz, right? In Touch there was a certain Oni Coach who'd beat up students but the principal looked the other way because if he reported his acts of violence to police their school would get disqualified from Koshien (Japanese National Amateur Baseball championship). I knew that Urumi didn't go to her female teacher's house so she could learn higher level stuff. It's cause she was attached to her. And her breaking Urumi's trust, essentially betraying her made her all kinds of fucked. I get teachers are humans too and they have limits. Having an oversmart student who genuinely knows more than you is probably the nightmare of every educator, but it was still wrong of Urumi's old teacher to do what she did. She didn't consider what Urumi felt and thought of her as a challenge. It's like she forgot why she decided to tutor her in the first place. Urumi being a test-tube baby was unexpected. No wonder the Ministry of Education values her so highly cause there's a small chance that they're responsible for creating her, I guess? It doesn't matter what her secret was, it was wrong of the teacher to spill it. But I guess it's all in the past now. This was one of the greatest episodes in a while. Nice arc. Hope we'll see more of Urumi Kanzaki aka psycho bitch later. I miss Yoshikawa but I'll take Onizuka acting as a love guru for Kunao for now. PrometheusZero said: I think it's probably because GTO prequels Bad Company and Shonan Junai Gumi! never really received proper anime adaptations? I'm not sure if the biker gang part was in those two mangas though cause I never read them. Another reason could be that there simply wasn't enough time.Nice resolution with Kanzaki, but I was a little disappointed that they didn't do the scene in the manga when Onizuka gets his old bike gang to tell Urumi their past. She's upset because she's a test tube baby but the childhood's of some of those 'Bozu' is down right horrific! |
| Onizuka giving life lessons to a yet off thee charts genius. I love it. |
| NOT THE HECKIN CRESTA BROS NOOOOOO F |
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| Kanzaki is agnostic, fatalistic, apathetic, sociopathic, and has no regard for the safety and well-being of herself and others. She's lived a life of no resistance, where everyone seemingly bends to her whims. She constantly harasses everyone of authority, not because she thinks she can get away, but because she seemingly wants to see where her boundaries are, if any. Her home life sounds cold, and her upbringing sounds like she's treated more of a pet or trophy. Kanzaki was never treated as a person, so I suppose she never saw the need to treat others differently. Then again, with how casually she throws herself in danger, she also doesn't see herself as a person. As she puts it, she's a collection of matter that's born into the world, and will eventually return to the world. She doesn't see a reason to care for anything, as no one really cared for her. A running theme with GTO is how the terrible behavior of Onizuka's students aren't things they're born with, they're acquired through their environment. Onizuka's students have been burned in the past by prior teachers, have had stressful or unwelcome families, succumb to peer pressure to commit wrongdoings, or were just accustomed to never experiencing repercussions for their actions. It's not Onizuka's role to be a parent, but at this point, I suppose he has no choice. |
| Awesome episode and a good ending to this Kanzaki arc, Onizuka teaches her about life and about enjoying the moment, not being stuck in the past. He reminds her of that slice of cake she always loved. Onizuka exposed her cowardice and fear of living by speeding over a big gap on the highway, missing it and falling, with the motorcycle gang to put a net to pull up Onizuka and Kanzaki. W Onizuka, strong heart and absolutely wild. |
| lol, he even involved Ryuji in the motorbikes reunion and, the dummy... he's really dedicated into giving lessons. The jump moment is just... epic, even for someone like me that never hated Urumi. "Teacher Forever" returns in the soundtrack and into one of the most perfect moments. So... is this the 4th or 5th totaled car? The second to last has just been repaired rather than replaced, is it possible? Fuyutsuki, come on... i was also clumsy after driving school license, but at least i never left the car in neutral gear without brakes on (no, seriously, me and my best friend also GTO enthusiast during the final days of high school faced a similar situation of another student that did the same error on the way to the written final exams). Next episode is a very good one, once again i misplaced it in memory as a later one in the plot. |
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| The poor car. Why does he insist on driving it to school if it gets wrecked every time? |
If you are going to disagree with me, don't bother talking to me. I will seriously hurt you! |
| A bad teacher is like a rotten apple, at a certain time of season there's a bunch of them, and school year happens to coincide with rotten apple time. I've had MANY bad teachers. I could count the amount of good ones on one hand. Truth is people don't give half a shit, and the public school system is fucked. Who wants to listen to meandering study all day? It's just cultural literacy. But man think of all we have to go through to attain that simple knowledge, it's really bunk, it shouldn't be necessary. The world needs better teachers and better educational systems. The amount of pain humans can cause to each other is pretty immense, this episode just drives that point home. It's so easy to be bad that it's hard to be good. We all wish there was a GTO out there somewhere, beyond the horizon. Instead we, you know, the usual, just skating by for a paycheck blaming anyone but ourselves, and basically going on a power trip like a rogue king. It's a shame what public institutions are, and to think they're supposed to take care of children. The whole thing's rotten to the core. The series is bringing back some pretty powerful feelings. The one thing public institutions hate are smarty pants, those of high intelligence who make things inconvenient for somebody trying to skate by. We all understand teachers are just subjects of a capitalist system and the whole thing is inherently cruel so their day is probably already four times worse than yours when you're just a student, and they probably see kids as cruel and their one fear is being one-upped by them. But still, there's really no excuse for such shitty behavior. Poor kiddo, it hits you in the feels every time, when some poor kid is mistreated like that. The damn gumption. Ah well, the world ain't all that perfect, we all skate by at one point, it's a tragedy we can't do more, locked in the same ecosystem of ignorance and hate, a shame. This arc was a little more powerful in the anime seeing it animated, it's probably the best one in the series. Boy do I wish they'd do a complete adaptation of this, but then again how would you live up to this one? It's a classic. |
DarkInsomnia57Sep 15, 8:20 PM
| By far the most impactful moment, i wonder how all the crazy convenient shit that happens in GTO can be useful n' real life idk but that's the point ahahhah |
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